Food for thought for your Sunday.
Jesus will never be without a witness.
Preferring Jesus
June
2, 2018
There was a time when Jesus went to the ballot to be chosen King
and Lord and instead of casting our votes for him, we voted against him by
saying “No, give us Barabbas”.” What about Jesus?”- Asked Pilot. “Crucify him!”
said the voters.
Wicked men sought
to prosecute Jesus and false witnesses came against Him, but the Law of the
Land found Him innocent. Nevertheless the hands of those who had the power to
set him free crucified Jesus.
How could this
happen? You might ask. When authority is corrupt, the innocent is in bankrupt.
When power is gone it is time to use the tongue. To silence the truth by the
use of violence is natural.
Many believe that if you kill
the dog the rabies is gone. Never the death of a sick person has put an end to
sickness, death, and dying. Killing “the Che Guevara”
from Argentina did not stop the revolutionary movement. Killing Bin Laden did
not stop radical Islam. Killing Jesus did not stop the spread of Christianity.
Killing the Christian did not stop the growth of the church. The blood of the
Martyrs is the seed of the church.
In the realm of ideological
warfare, violence is like a wind that spreads the fire faster. Jesus was voted
down and killed and lifted up on the cross with a sign at the top of the cross
that read for posterity “Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews”.
Jesus was lifted up in
violence only to be looked at Him in hope at the crucified. At the death of
Jesus, God in his own right put a sign over the living and the dead. “This
is the condemnation, light came into the world, but men preferred darkness
instead of Life because their deeds were evil”
Man preferred Barabbas
instead of Jesus, people voted for Barabbas knowing him to be a lawbreaker and
a criminal. Later all men will look to him who was lifted up, Jesus
said: “If I am lifted up, I will draw all men unto myself.”
All men will look at Jesus,
not only some men but all. To some Jesus will draw
them into salvation and to the others He will draw to them to condemnation, but
all will come to the cross of Jesus at Calvary only to be divided in front of
the cross. Some will go to the left and some to the right without any other
alternative. The parade in front of the cross continues throughout generations.
Humanity is divided into two groups and two groups only. “Those who
love and follow Jesus and those who do not love and follow Jesus.”
Every generation is casting
their votes for or against Jesus, but in reality they are casting for or
against their own destiny.
Please join me in
this ever present election season by voting for Jesus to make King by prayer
and reject the Barabbas’s of our time and repeat after Jesus “ Your
Kingdom come, Your will be done”.
The desire for the Kingdom to
come for some is a New World Order, but for us the believers, the
Kingdom is not a Cause to follow or an Ideal to pursue. For us the believers,
the Kingdom is a Person and that is Jesus, the King. He who is willing to die
for a cause is a fool but he who is willing to die for a person is wise and has
hope that no one can take it away from him. Jesus is Hope in the flesh.
King Jesus will not come
unless we weep in desire for His return. We must persuade God in prayers of
genuine longing and need for His return. He must be desired and wanted more
than life itself. God loved Jacob but hated Esau, because Jacob needed him. God
loves those who need him to death.
The casting of our votes for
Jesus should be the casting of our destiny into His able hands alone. Pray as
if you were casting yourself from the edge of the Universe not the dark unknown
as in a temptation but at the prompting of his voice to come to his open arms.
Jesus wants you to repeat after Him: “Your Kingdom Come.” Let us
AGREE with Jesus all of us at once with a sounding “YES.”
This was a
friendly reminder to vote for Jesus, by casting life into his hands.
Gerry Gutierrez
PS. The pictures
are testimony of how far I traveled campaigning for Jesus in
Katmandu, Nepal, Norther India at the feet of
the Himalayans preparing people for the 21 Century Leadership in the
world.
